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Re: Negro Beowulf!

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From: Peter Alaca
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:21
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ivy_mike@my-deja.com wrote: 
1134838938.473112.37380@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,

> The Sanity Inspector wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:44:58 -0700 in atl.general,  Hank
>> <arminius@mail.cybertrails.com> shared with usenet this 
>> thought...:
>>
>>> Just when you think you've seen it all another bit of insanity
>>> surfaces.

>>> http://www.anus.com/zine/news/1010.html  American Nihlist
>>> Underground Society.
>>>
>>> Can we anticipate Whoopi Goldberg cast as "Catherine the Great"?

>> Er, is there a rule against black actors in the drama classics?
>
> Well yeah, sorta.  But you may watch their performances (and
> alterations if you like).  I haven't looked it up, but Beowulf, 
> IIRC, was an old
> Viking  tale from maybe the 600s AD, and was told verbally through 
> the
> centuries,  till it was written down in around 1100 AD.  It is 
> also the oldest
> existing writing in literarture that was written in English (Old 
> English),
> IIRC. I oughtta look it up and see how off my memory is.....but I
> think I've got it about right.

See: http://www.heorot.dk/beo-intro-rede.html 
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